Improvement



GLS. FOUS. Clothes-Wriugers.

No. 220,821. Ptremedoci. 21, `1879.

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Specilieation forinlirng noi' Letters Patent No. 220,821, dated October 21,1579; application filed To all nhomI ltgmay concern,.-

Be it-known that I, GUsri-vUsS. Foos, o

Springfield, in' the count-y of Clarke, and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin ClothesVringers; and

I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, iirwliicli- Figure l is a perspective view of niy device arranged for use. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the saine4 upon a lille passing .transversely through the journals ofthe rollers, and Fig.

,3 is a longitudinal section ofthe'fraine upon a line with the axes ot' the rollers.

Letters ot' like naine and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The design or' inyi'nventioiris to increase the etiieiency a nd'render more perfect the operation ot' c lothes-wringers, to which end 1t consists,principally, in the means employed for giving to the pressure-levers independent variable spring-pressure by thci'noveineutof one screw, substantiallyv as and for thepurpose hereinafter specified.

It consists, further, in tlienieans employed for ln `ding the lower rollei` upward against the upper roller with a yielding variable pressure and without interference with or liinitationjof the relatively independent action of its ends,

4 substantially-as and for the purpose hereinai'ter shown.

In the annexed drawings, A and A represent the side plates o f the frame ot' niy wringer, which have the general forni shown in Figs. l and 2, `have inwnrd-projecting lianges upon theiri'rontand rear edges, and are connected together at their npperends by means ofan arched brace, l-3,.and at their lower ends by an openwork brace, i, which, at each rear inner cor!- August 11,1879.

of usual form, the lengihof each of said openings being such as to enable said rollers to be separated snfiiciently to permit of the passage between of' any usual articleot clothing.

The journals cof the upper roller have bearings within the upper ends of the openings a', the thickness of each side piece, A, being increased at such points, so as to furnish greater breadth ot bearing for said journals.

The journals e of the lower roller, E', rest within the lower ends ot' two links, vF, which from thence pass upward around the journals c of the upper roller, i, and have their opposite ends engaged with the short outer ends, g, of two levers, G, which levers are pivoted within the upper portions ofthe side pieces, A, and'extend horizontally inward until their inner ends' nearly meet.

As thus arranged, by inoving the inner ends' of the levers G upward or dow n ward,t.he roller E will be, respectively, lowered or raised, and any desired amount of pressure of said lower roller upon the upper roller may be produced by downward pressure upon the inner ends ot said levers.

Iu'order that a yielding downward pressure may be produced upon `the inner ends of the levers G, and that such pressure may be varied at will, and each lever be free to niove indei pendentof the. motions of the' other lever, the tbllowing-described means are employed, viz: At thelongitudinal center of the brace Bis provided ahousing, H, which extends from a pointnear the upper side ot' the'roller E upward a short distance above said brace, and' interiorly is divided from its lower end nearly to its upper end into tw`o compartments, h and lz., that have each substantially the form of a cylinder. Y y

A vertical slot, h', at eachsidcof the'housing H, vnear its 'lower end, admits the inner' end ot' the contiguous lever G into the' eompartnicnt h at such side ot' said housing, and above the end of each lever, within each com partaient, is placed a spiral spring, I'.

The space within the upper portion of the. housing-H is not'divided, and within said' space is placed a block, K, which loosely fills the saine horizontally and 'rests upon the upper ends of the springs. A set-screw, L, passing downward through a threaded opening prod vided in the upper end ofl said housing, bears upon the center of said block,and aifords a means whereby the latter may be pressed downward and said springs compressed and caused to exert more pressure upon said levers.

'Bymeansof the construction shown the lower roller, E', may be held against the upper roller, E, with 'any desired pressure, while each` end of .the former is free to move away froin the latter without interference withvor effect upon the opposite end of the same.

crank, M, attachedto the projecting 'end of the journal e. of the lower roller,'. E', enables the same -to be rotated, `and the wringerY to be used inthe ordinary manner.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and lmerits of my invention, what hclaim as newV isv 1. In combination with the pivoted levers G, the housing H, having its lower portion divided into two parallelcompa-rtnients, h, the springs l I, arranged within said compartments and having their lower ends supported by the ends of said levers, the block K, contained within the- 'upper undividedvportion of said housing, and the screw L, passin g,throu gh a threaded opening and arranged to move said block vertically, substantially as and for the purpose specified.A A

2. As a means for giving to the ends of the roller E independent and adjustable upward Apressure against the roller E, and in combination therewith, the links F, embracing the jourhave hereunto' set my -handthisthi day- -ofv July,189.ku l n' v GUSTAVUS S.. FOOS.

Witnesses I A. P. LINN COCHRAN, RoB'r. C. RoDGEns, 

